Re: Living Computer Museum

2013-02-25 Thread David Boyes
'tis a pity they don't have an ancient Burroughs B6700... that would be impressive. They have most of a B5500 in their warehouse (which is a total fantasy-land if you're a hardware geek), and are about to bring a working 4341 online. They just reanimated 6 Mw of 36bit core for the KI, which

Console View on LInux

2013-02-25 Thread Davis, Larry (National VM Capability)
I have a SUSE 11 system that when I Log on from a 3270 session I get thrown in to a LOG like if I was logging into a Running CMS user. I have my CONSOLE SPOOL'd to my Linux ID and have Operator as my SECUSER in the Directory on the CONSOLE statement. This did not do this on z/VM 5.4 but it does

Query for Destination z article: successor training and knowledge transfer

2013-02-25 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Blah, blah -- we hear constantly about the oncoming (or current!) brain drain of a mainframer generation retiring. We certainly hear on these lists about individuals retiring (and congratulations for that!). So, is it a crisis or is it about as well predicted and handled as Y2K (that is,